JB/014/261/001

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1819 Oct. 31

Deontology

6

Passion
1. Anger

But, of benevolence, if the matter were
rightly considered, the response it may
be said would be, that prosecution should
take place notwithstanding; and that
so important a good to the public at large
neither the suffering of the offender in the
shape of punishment, nor the suffering of
the prosecutor in respect of expence and
vexation should be grudged. Good. But
in the first place, I can very ill afford it:
so ill that the effect of suffering produced by the pecuniary burthen
upon me may be greater than any good
the uncertain and imponderable nature of it
considered that can be clearly seen should
be sufficiently promised by the prosecution
and its result.

In the next place the responses
of benevolence, be they ever so decisive, have
no influence on me; or what comes to the
same thing, have no adequate influence:—
Here then, in neither shape has virtue sufficient
force to produce the effect in question: and
yet without the frequent production of such
an effect, the security of society would suffer
a shock more or less grievous according to
the failure in respect of frequency, and supposing
it never produced at all security would be
entirely destroyed, and the general destruction
of property would be the result. This supposed,
virtue in both its forms is insufficient
for the preservation of society: Anger, the
passion, dissocial as it seems to be on
first appearance is indispensably necessary.

Identifier: | JB/014/261/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1819-10-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	261	Info in main headings field	deontology
Image	001	Titles
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